Sitting doing my ministerial box this evening, and oh, what’s this? A press cutting from the Ephraim Hardcastle diary in The Daily Mail, with a piece about Yours Truly. It referenced a piece I wrote on this blog a few weeks ago. But it was the description of me that cut deep: “Tom Harris, the Shrek-like Minister for Transport…”

Shrek-like? “Shrek”, as in smelly, big green ogre who lives in a swamp and speaks with a broad Scottish accent? Well. okay, that last one I accept.